the Big stuff
Lion from Mesopotamia. You can't see from this photo, but its whole body is covered in cuneiform writing.
Another mesopotamian lion. This one i think came from the entryway to a palace. Again... WTF british museum! Yeah we shipped this here from what is now modern iraq. You know, thought it would look good in the garden...
Same lion from the front. If you notice, the lion in total has 5 legs. Meaning that likely t was meant to be viewed fron the front or the side, rather than from a 3/4 view.
At this point I discovered that the stuff I'd see before was just the piddly little egyptian stuff. On the first floor was a gallery of egyptian monuments. The Big stuff.
4 Sekhmet statues. Each one is in better condition than the one at the ROM.
Part of a huge wall relief carving.
Venus caught bathing, I believe is what this statue was of.
A copy of a shrine. I think it was the naiad shrine, because the figures dancing are though to represent or at least remind archaeologists of naiads.
ROM people might recognize why I took this photo. Maybe. Its in a much less used part of the museum.
Nearly naked dude.
Me and Fuzzbe were there!
Lion pouncing.
The Rosetta stone.
Sigh. Oh the British musuem...
And I only scratched the surface. The upper floors closed before I could go see them all. And then I was getting really tired and over stimulated by all the stuff.
So I went out in search of a pint after buying a book from the gift store to teach myself ancient egyptian heiroglyphs.
I ended up at a pub just infront of the museum where I sat by myself at a table normally for 6. Fortunately a random old guy who had been attending a lecture at the museum joined me. Then we proceeded to talk about the finer points of beers, lagers, ciders and wine; aswell as fruit and linguistics.
A nice time all in all.
It seems I get a long easier with people who are older than me than with my peers. :S
I want to make friends more my own age.
Some day. Some how.
Sigh